Sonic Boom Goes Bust, But At least We Got a Cover That’s a Collector’s Item

Remember that glorious day on January 23 when we thrilled readers across the Emerald Plain, cheering the return of our beloved Seattle Sonics?

Or not ...

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Our very own Matt Driscoll was positively giddy, pouring cheap champagne all over his head as he read his evocative lead to wide, er, red-eyed, staff members:

“Two weeks of swirling and contradictory reports,” Driscoll’s pants-wetting dispatch began, “based on unnamed sources and cryptic public statements about the return of the NBA to Seattle came to a jubilant end on Monday as the sale of the Sacramento Kings to a publicity-shy investor became official.”

Fist-pumping words they were indeed, encased in an awe-inspiring green-and-gold cover of Sean Kemp planting a big sloppy one on a basketball, with the stirring caption below that read: “It’s Reigning Again!”

It’s a collector’s item, no doubt it, and for a limited time only this immortal cover can be yours for a mere 50 bucks -- and that’s a steal when you consider that a framed Chicago Daily Tribune “Dewey Beats Truman” is going for $150 on eBay.